Nurses Need to Understand the Basic Definitions and Incidence Data

question 7

Multiple Choice

Nurses need to understand the basic definitions and incidence data regarding PPH.Which statement regarding this condition is most accurate?

• A) PPH is easy to recognize early; after all, the woman is bleeding.
• B) Traditionally, it takes more than 1000 ml of blood after vaginal birth and 2500 ml after cesarean birth to define the condition as PPH.
• C) If anything, nurses and physicians tend to overestimate the amount of blood loss.
• D) Traditionally, PPH has been classified as early PPH or late PPH with respect to birth.

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Definitions:

Real Numbers

All the numbers on the number line, including rational and irrational numbers, but not imaginary numbers.

Radical Expression

An expression that includes a radical symbol, which indicates the root of a number.

Simplify

The process of making an expression or equation easier to work with, by reducing it to its most basic form.

Absolute Value

The distance of a number from zero on the real number line, disregarding whether it is positive or negative.